Des Dalton

Des Dalton was President of the socialist Republican Sinn Fein party in Northern Ireland.

Biography
Des Dalton was once a member of the conservative Fianna Fail party's youth wing, but he joined Republican Sinn Fein at the age of eighteen and ran in the Athy town council elections of 2004 and 2009. He claimed that the United Kingdom had slapped constitituonal nationalism in the face, and he advocated radical nationalism during the aftermath of The Troubles. Dalton was arrested in County Armagh in 2011 for taking part in a protest over the imprisonment of a Provisional IRA member.